Dear fellow bloggers, Don’t you love it when you go from not knowing what you’ll write about, to not knowing how to keep your Very Exciting Topic focused, in a matter of moments? … and then I thought: open access! Of course! As a longtime science journalist, I am familiar with the heavy-hitting journals: Science, [...]
Termite kings are fine for fathering the workers, but when it comes to producing daughters, the queen‘s got it under control, thanks … That’s the new finding from researchers in Raleigh, North Carolina and Japan, embellished with my romantic cynicism. Scientifically speaking, here are the goods: the researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible [...]
Scientific American usually does a great job — but today, I suspect their reporters weren’t listening very closely when they wrote this post: “Texas vote moves evolution to the top of the class.” I listened this afternoon to the Texas Board of Education as its members revised the state’s science teaching standards, and it sounded to [...]
Lest you think I’m as bad at math as I really am, let me just say I know I skipped Day 60. Day 60 is dead to me. On Day 60, I landed at the doctor’s office again, because an infection didn’t respond to the first antibiotic — so now I’m on two. Yesterday, I [...]